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Wednesday 20th April 2022

2014

Wyrd Sisters

Author : Terry Pratchett

Summary :
Macbeth meets Discworld
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Rated by rogerco, on 20 Apr 2022

Review Summary :
An entertaining fast read


Saturday 2nd April 2022

2000

Grasshopper

Author : Barbara Vine

Summary :
Death falling from a pylon and death and near-death falling from a roof recounted eleven years later by 30-something Clodagh

Reviewed by rogerco, on 02 Apr 2022

Review Summary :
Keeping the tension up with hints of what is to come at every stage

Excellent Read

Story being told by Clodagh in about 2000 about events that happened to her in the late 1980s in London. It starts with her leaving home not really recovered from a terrible accident with her teenage lover and ends with her writing the account for her husband in her penthouse apartment in Highgate whilst awaiting his return from work in Africa.

Along the way we learn about her current life (a becoming successful electrician with her own small business) and the story of what happened to her after she left home in Suffolk to study Psychogy & Business Studies at "Grand Union Polytechnic" in London.



Saturday 19th March 2022

2017

Original Language: Icelandic mins

Whiteout

Dark Iceland 5

Author : Ragnar Jonasson

Summary :
Mixing the past and present again as Ari Thor investigates a death at a remote house on a headland by a lighthouse.

Rated by rogerco, on 19 Mar 2022

Review Summary :
but still a good read


Tuesday 1st March 2022

2012

The Old Ways

A Journey on Foot

Author : Robert Macfarlane

Summary :
An account of 16 walks, or track followings, in the form of psycho-geographical poetic meditations.
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Reviewed by rogerco, on 01 Mar 2022

Review Summary :
Beautifully written, and deeply meditative

The Poetry of Paths

Having previously read Underland I was delighted to find this earlier book was every bit as rich and entertaining.



Sunday 27th February 2022

2019

The Anarchy

The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

Author : William Dalrymple

Summary :
The rise of the East India Company from small trading organisation to the first global corporation more powerful than a coumtry
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Reviewed by rogerco, on 27 Feb 2022

Review Summary :
Absorbing

They led, many have followed

The irresistible logic of capitalist growth and human self-interest. Of course they believed they were doing the right thing at every step. And many of the rulers they defeated were more despotic, But the way in which it inevitably led to political corruption has so many echoes today. Essentially the joint stock company is a malignant social organisation which survives as a vehicle for greed and dreams. 



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